Another clam story with a FW dip

[Canadian Man]

Well I did some reading and my big derasa clam had a very bad pinched mantle and my 2 gold maxxima's had a little bit of it as well.

I took some ro/di water and made it the same temp as the tank(80F)
I placed the 3 clams in the fw for 15 minutes and then put them back in the tank.
About 15min later they were opening again. about 4 hours later the Derasa is allready looking better. It's still not fully expanded but we will see what tommorow brings.

:mrgreen:

cheers

[EmilyB]

Do you think someone is nipping at the mantles........ :neutral:

[MitchM]

Wouldn't it be better to dip them in tap water? The PH change from saltwater to RO water would be a pretty big shock, wouldn't it?
If I remember right, RO water has a PH of between 6 and 7.
:confused:

Mitch

[StirCrazy]

Wouldn't it be better to dip them in tap water? The PH change from saltwater to RO water would be a pretty big shock, wouldn't it?
If I remember right, RO water has a PH of between 6 and 7.
:confused:

Mitch

I would thing that there is to much of a chance for desolved nasties in tap water.. ie copper ect.. better to be safe in my opinion.. for what it was worth I used RO/DI water for my dip.

Steve

[Canadian Man]

Do you think someone is nipping at the mantles........ :neutral:

No, No one likes the clam. It seems to be a fairly common thing with clam's latley.

Mitch I was going on the clam expert's advice from RC, Reefs. org.
Ming..........forgot last name

[EmilyB]

Lately ??? Like with who lately? Like another clam disease thing? :eek:

I'd be happy to buy back my derasa Jon, I moved out the Kole, and the Chevron doesn't bother my ugly hippo-po at all !

[Canadian Man]

:razz: No way!

Yea one of those parasite, type things. There is a few post's(not more than a page worth) on RC and some links went to R.ORG.
It's supposed to be a fairly easy thing to fix and your supposed to do it to all the clams in the tank or it will show up again.

Mr. Dersa looks much better now.

[titus]

Hello,

I suppose the SARS for clams.

Titus

[Canadian Man]

Hello,

I suppose the SARS for clams.

Titus :lol:
You bet! Everyone better watch out! Start panicking!
Evacuate! Evacuate! :eek:

[stephane]

:lol: